Dana Rohrabacher: “In my district we had a gentleman named Fernando Pedrosa who came from El Salvador several years ago. He was a fine man…”

“In my district we had a gentleman named Fernando Pedrosa who came from El Salvador several years ago. He was a fine man, a wonderful human being, Fernando Pedrosa was a wonderful human being, but he had leukemia. By the time he died at a hospital in my district, hundreds of thousands of dollars had been spent. That is hundreds of thousands of dollars that he had never contributed to whatsoever. We owe it to the people of the United States to see that this problem is dealt with. We cannot have people coming in here from all over the world, no matter how wonderful they are, and they are good people, and getting cancer treated, getting leukemia treated, getting new kidneys, getting new hearts, whatever it is; and even if they are in an automobile accident, yes, they should be taken care of if it is an emergency. We are never going to throw someone out in that situation. But if they are in this country illegally, I have no apologies, we have no apologies, that person should be treated for the emergency and then they should be sent home to their native country, because they are here illegally. In Los Angeles, there was a breakdown in the Los Angeles County public health care system. It required a $364 million bailout of our health care system in Los Angeles, mainly due to the fact that we have been treating so many millions of people who are in this country illegally. We cannot let this go on.”